Dutch film director Tom Six has made a flick too sick for the Brits.

British censors have refused to classify Six's sequel to his earlier classic, The Human Centipede.

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) depicts a chap who obsesses over the first Centipede flick and then goes on a rampage, getting his sexual jollies from torturing his naked victims.

Six doubtlessly figured this a recipe for success, but the British Board of Film Classification disagreed. A refusal to classify virtually bans the film.

The sequel is bound to be a tad blue, since the original, which the censors allowed public viewing, depicts a mad scientist who grafts kidnap victims mouth to anus, hence the "centipede" moniker. (Roger Ebert was not tempted to give it a thumbs up: "I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.")

Six promised Centipede II would make the original look like "My Little Pony" in comparison.

The mutilation and humiliation inflicted in II involves an in-depth examination of the torturer's sexual fantasies. The trailer boasted the film was "the sickest movie of all time."


The classification board agreed: "There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience."

It's not known how North American movie bureaucrats will react to Centipede II, but the British decision could pressure the MPAA in the U.S. to kibosh the cinematic gem as well. Six said it's North American premiere would occur "some time after summer."

Not surprisingly, Six (we live in an age of apropos names, don't we Anthony Weiner?) is protesting the British decision.

"Apparently, I made an horrific horror film, but shouldn't a good horror film be horrific?" Six opined to Empire magazine. "My dear people it is a f****cking MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art. Give people their own choice to watch it or not. If people can't handle or like my movies they just don't watch them."

Of course, Six may still get the last laugh. Bans have a tendency to whet the appetites of many a movie-goer who lusts to view a mad scientist getting his jollies from eviscerating his victims. Coming soon to an Internet porn site near you, no doubt.